And a reliable accountant for our fictitious company. The business is back on its feet, in some places it has begun to grow, new clients arrive, there is a mountain of work, we return home late and irregularly, on weekends we amuse ourselves by completing tasks that were not completed during the work week. 1024 cups of espresso and a couple of sleepless nights later, voices in my head begin to whisper the magic word “delegation”. Having overcome difficult moral contradictions, about which Maxim Ilyakhov wrote well, the entrepreneur begins to look for a person who will help him break out of the routine. This person could be a secretary, personal assistant or business assistant.

The market offers a bunch of options, starting with web services and ending with full-time employees. We have done a little research and want to talk about popular options that will suit Moscow entrepreneurs ranging from micro to medium-sized businesses. Let's try to be objective and not pull the blanket on the Button, although this is not easy.

Online service exchanges

The Internet has given the temporarily unemployed, students, people without experience and opponents of the office lifestyle the opportunity to become “freelance general professionals” or simply earn extra money in their free time.

Virtual assistant

Stylish, fashionable, youth outsourcing has penetrated into all areas, the topic of this post is no exception. For relatively little money, you can get a virtual secretary or an entire front office that will work with correspondence, take calls, search and structure the necessary information and carry out simple mechanical tasks without taking up your office space (if any).

Virtual assistant services, like YourBees or Assistant, can take on slightly more complex tasks. These guys will book a hotel, order flowers for the woman they love, organize a holiday, and help find employees, suppliers, contractors and even real estate. It was not possible to find a clear boundary of the virtual assistant’s competencies - he will take on any legal assignments that do not require leaving the office. If you can’t do it yourself, he’ll help you find a contractor.

Another type of virtual assistant is a concierge service. Essentially, this is a premium virtual assistant that will be 146% more courteous, polite and diligent. Such services, as a rule, come in addition to elite brands like Vertu, Visa cards of the Gold level and higher, or membership in closed luxury clubs, so not everyone will be able to receive Holy Communion. We have never encountered such phenomena face to face, but they say that the quality is at the highest level. Maybe you have had such an experience?

Who is it suitable for?

Virtual secretaries and assistants will save you from the daily struggle with routine and free up time for thoughts about taking over the world. The entrepreneur does not have to think about who to entrust this or that task to. Disadvantages: you will have to work with different employees (although there are assistants at the dedicated and elite levels) who will not be immersed in the specifics of the business. But such an assistant will never get sick or give up everything for a trip to an exotic country.

What is the price

• From 5,000 rubles per month for a virtual secretary;
• from 500 rubles per hour of virtual assistant work;
• concierge service is priceless.

Links

Virtual secretary/office: secretservice.ru, matrixoffice.ru, callcenter24.ru.

Remote secretary

It is incredibly difficult to select new epithets for a category that you are describing for the third time. A remote secretary has the same pros and cons as a remote accountant or lawyer. The advantages are a more personal approach than virtual assistants and a lower cost compared to a full-time employee. The disadvantages are also obvious: not the highest motivation, the impossibility of physical influence. And he won’t bring tea.

On the other hand, the secretarial profession does not require the same level of knowledge, skills and abilities that are required by an accountant and lawyer. You can hire an acquaintance, a neighbor's daughter, or a second great-nephew. The main thing is responsibility and discipline. It is advisable to enter into a civil law agreement to avoid legal battles.

Who is it suitable for?

For those who need a personal approach. Theoretically, when a business has an office with a reception, a remote employee will be able to level up to a full-time employee. In this case, the entrepreneur will not have to re-introduce the person to the inner workings of his company.

What is the price

10,000-30,000 rubles per month.

Employee on staff

Office secretary is a category overgrown with a bunch of clichés and stereotypes. According to humorous jokes, the duties of the secretary include coating the horn plates with paints and varnishes, transporting tonic drinks and hunting for the hand, heart and wallet of the boss. In his free time from these important activities, the secretary is engaged in sorting mail, receiving calls and visitors, purchasing office supplies and sorting out those tasks that the manager does not like.

If a secretary works hard and does more than is expected of him, there is a chance to earn the “personal assistant” or “business assistant” achievement. This person is needed not only and not so much for shifting pieces of paper and pressing buttons on the coffee machine. This is the same healthy head on which you can shift problems with the patient, a second memory and a third hand for an entrepreneur.

An assistant with the prefix “personal” is designed to fulfill the whims of an entrepreneur - order something somewhere, collect information, make an appointment, run and bring it (the clinical case is perfectly described in the first person). A “business class” assistant is, in fact, a miniature executive director who often knows more about the company’s operating activities than the business owner. He helps organize business processes, can independently communicate with clients and suppliers, and sometimes even make decisions and give advice to his boss.

This profession is not taught at university, so it is unlikely that you will be able to find a solution out of the box. If the level of an accountant and lawyer can be assessed at least by professional qualities, then choose personal assistant or a business assistant needs a completely different approach. When selecting assistants for Button, we use tasks that help assess their horizons, erudition, mobility, ability to interact with people and work with new information. Simply put, you need to look for a person who loves and knows how to learn and is ready to work without job descriptions. This is the case when a person must organize the work of his manager, and not vice versa.

Who is it suitable for?

The purpose of this category is clear without further ado. The need for such employees appears among owners of “adult” medium-sized businesses and top managers of large companies. In large intergalactic corporations, this role is performed by several people, or even a couple of departments: office managers, call center, secretariat and others like them.

What is the price

30,000-50,000 rubles per month for a secretary-assistant;

40,000-80,000 rubles per month for a personal assistant/business assistant;

100,000 and above for a dude of the “let a pink pony fly to me on a rainbow Falcon 9 right now” class.

Links

Search for relevant queries on HeadHunter, SuperJob.

What place does the Button occupy?

A business assistant in Knopka is the main person in the team from the client’s point of view - it is the business assistant who communicates with the entrepreneur, accepts tasks, transfers them to a button accountant or lawyer, or solves them independently. The client may forget the name of the service, the address of our website, or the color of ButtonCat, but he always knows his business assistant by name. The business assistant, in turn, knows everything about the affairs of each client.

As development progressed, we rethought the role of the business assistant several times. At first he was perceived as a personal assistant, then as a secretary, but later, when our guys improved a lot, we realized that they were doing an excellent job with the tasks that a business assistant usually performs. Of course, a push-button assistant can still book a flight, find a good restaurant in an unfamiliar city, or sign up for a pedicure, but it can do more.

Working in a team with an accountant and lawyer, our business assistant will help build business processes right up to the launch of a new project or direction. We hire real superheroes, they constantly study, work with different businesses and, sometimes, know what you don’t expect from them. It’s unlikely that it will be possible to list everything without inflating the post into an unreadable footcloth, but you can read about a couple of real examples

In yet another attempt to implement ideas from science fiction films, tech giants, one after another, began working on virtual assistants. At the Google I/O 2016 conference the company presented Google Assistant, as well as an analogue of Amazon Echo - home voice Google Assistant Home.

The latest major company to enter the virtual assistant race. Let's figure out what competitors it has (including among startups).

First, let's remember what Google Now is.

Google Voice Search/Google Now

Peculiarities: Fast. Extremely accurate when creating routes. It frightens you with its knowledge of your flights, bookings and other details. with some third party applications: Manage notes, messages, and music playback.

Flaws: Sometimes you get bored with excessive initiative (for example, it shows the results of games of teams that are not interesting to you, or routes to home from famous places). Useless when controlling a smart home. Work on integration with third-party applications seems to have stalled.

Humanity Level: Null. Not conducive to communication. It doesn't even have a name other than Google.

Summary: Google's vast reserves of personal data and access to a search engine should, in theory, make Google an industry leader, but the company has yet to even figure out how to leverage its advantages and create an assistant that can understand the user. Today Google Now and voice search They compete on equal terms with Siri, but have not yet reached a new level of development.

And now - about competitors.

Apple Siri

What: A voice assistant that can talk to the user and give proactive recommendations. Activated by long pressing the Home button on the iPad. Assistant support has recently appeared on Apple TV and Apple Watch.

Peculiarities: Easy to use on iOS devices. Understands natural speech. Knowledgeable about news, weather, sports, movies, routes and local businesses. Can tell you what to watch on TV. Able to interact with certain elements " smart home».

Flaws: Cannot interact with most other applications and services. Works slower than some competitors.

Humanity Level: Unable to carry on a full conversation, but certain moments demonstrates his own wisdom. The female voice sounds relatively human.

Flaws: It feels great on Windows - a platform that is least interesting to developers, and, possibly, to users. Using the assistant on Android and iOS is more difficult and has fewer functions.

Humanity Level: Loves jokes, especially banal ones. Has a long list of witty responses ready general issues. Can read passages from Shakespeare.

Summary: After years of being in the shadows of Siri and Google, Cortana has become a much more interesting chatbot. Microsoft wants to make its voice assistant the underlying intelligence for all other bots, able to manage your travels, meetings, to-do lists and other things, as well as increase integration with other Microsoft products, such as Office. The company's goal is to create a new shell for computing technology in the post-PC era, but it's too early to judge whether it will succeed or not.

Facebook M

What: Partly managed, partly by people, and still in development. M will be a text-based assistant in the Facebook Messenger environment.

Peculiarities: Will try to do everything you ask.

Flaws: It is not yet a finished product, and will not be for a long time. Available only to a small number of users in San Francisco.

Humanity Level: Extremely high, since people will be involved in shaping the answers to questions. According to Wired, the company hopes that over time M will learn from these operators and be able to work more independently.

Summary: On this moment M is just a little more than just an idea. But given Facebook's interest in chatbots in general, it wouldn't be surprising if M ends up being super-intelligent.

X.ai

What: One of the few virtual assistants that has only one function. It works only through e-mail, where it can make appointments at your request.

Peculiarities: Knows your schedule and preferences, negotiates with other participants for you.

Peculiarities: Viv promises that their product will be able to understand complex questions such as: “Will the temperature near the Golden Gate Bridge be above 20 degrees the day after tomorrow after 5 pm?” Work is underway to ensure compatibility with third-party applications.

Flaws: So far, other than prepared presentations, there is no evidence that everything works exactly as stated.

Humanity Level: Values ​​visual aids and specific answers more highly than detailed description. The presence of wit is questionable.

Flaws: Integration options with third-party applications are limited, and it is impossible to open the service directly on iOS or Android. Requests that the assistant cannot recognize are redirected to Ask.com.

Humanity Level: He is not conducive to long conversations, but knows how to answer additional questions.

Summary: It seems that mobile applications Hound actually exists only to show off the capabilities of the Houndify service (adding voice assistant functionality to any application - editor's note), which SoundHound plans to sell to other companies. If everything works out, we won’t even know that we are using it.

Ozlo

What: AI, whose main function at the moment is to search for cafes, bars and restaurants. Available to a limited number of users.

Peculiarities: Finds and combines data from multiple sources, including Yelp and Foursquare, and then presents everything in the form of convenient cards. Tries to communicate by asking and answering follow-up questions, such as “what places are open now?” or “what’s on their menu?”

Flaws: Limited features unless Ozlo creators add new features. AI relies heavily on users to train.

Humanity Level: Avoids unnecessary pleasantries, only briefly greets by name.

Summary: Ozlo would be no different from many other chatbots if it did not have the prospect of creating something more. The ability to combine data from multiple sources into a single result is unique, but it remains to be seen whether developers will be able to realize the full potential they claim. In the meantime, Ozlo's business plan is limited to just the app, and there may be problems collecting the data necessary for training.

SpeakToIt Assistant.ai

What: One of many copies of Siri. In the app store, searching for Siri brings up many similar programs, such as Voice Commands, Voice Secretary and Assistant.

Peculiarities: Not much different from Siri, but can learn custom commands to activate a list of functions.

Flaws: Not as useful as the built-in assistant on your smartphone, and not as convenient.

Humanity Level: It sounds rather unnatural, but portrays himself as a human assistant whose gender and appearance can be changed.

Summary: Some of these Siri clones look like a relic of the past, when not all iPhone models could work with Apple's proprietary assistant and needed a replacement. In any case, it seems that their creators are aware that this approach will not achieve success. For example, SpeakToIt moved to create a set of tools that other developers could use to make their own chatbots.

A virtual assistant is an Internet resource or software for mobile devices and PCs, which essentially performs all the functions of a personal secretary for the user. The assistant can solve problems of changing and planning a work schedule, help with organizing and performing everyday tasks and searching for the data a person needs on the Internet.

One of the most important differences between the virtual assistant and previous generations of schedulers is that the virtual assistant is contextual in its operation—that is, it takes into account the range of conditions in which the user finds himself. This may include its geolocation and other circumstances.

A virtual assistant can create various reminders, select places to stay, help in finding and booking tables in establishments and various types of tickets, and order a taxi at an address. The assistant is able to independently learn, taking into account completed tasks, analyzing the behavior and all the user’s hobbies.

History and development of digital assistants

In 2005, thanks to an initiative from an independent non-profit research institute from California, SRI International, the efforts of a number of researchers were combined to bring to life a very ambitious and unusual idea - to create a virtual assistant that would have the ability to absorb knowledge, self-learn and systematize information . The project was originally called CALO, and it belonged to the PAL program, within which it was developed artificial intelligence, designed to meet military purposes and needs.

This means that the project was originally a defense project. The researchers came up with ideas and created prototypes of digital assistants that would be able to satisfy such a specific task - to create a connection between the user of such a service and the service itself. As a result, 2009 was a success for the researchers, and work on the project was completed. The state army received a virtual assistant that could sort mail emails, draw up reporting documents on their content and create schedules of meetings and appointments.

This defense project was the basis for Siri, a commercial project that is currently included in the iPhone software. Today, not only smartphones from Cupertino can boast of a virtual assistant - almost every mobile device supports technology. Moreover, the user can choose which virtual assistant to use. And there are already a lot of them.

Google Now Assistant

This virtual assistant from the popular search giant. Able to analyze your Email and request history in search engine. Supported on Android OS, iOS, and also allows installation of an assistant in Google browser Chrome.

• What is the difference. High speed work. Virtual assistant Has increased accuracy when creating routes. Has a lot of information about booking your tickets and tables, about flights and transfers. It can interact with a number of other applications, manage your notes and calendar, analyze messages and control music playback.

• Disadvantages of an assistant. Sometimes the virtual assistant is overly proactive (for example, it can demonstrate the results of matches between teams that are not of interest to you, or provide directions to your home from familiar places). It is useless in the process of managing a smart home. All workflows for integrating the assistant with third-party applications appear to have been paused.

• The humanity of the assistant. Located at zero. Not at all conducive to communication. Apart from the word “Google” it has no name. But the company is trying to constantly improve its own virtual assistant, which is not surprising, given its level. Recently, Google managed to use neural networks to make the assistant speak more humanely, but not yet in Russian.

Apple's Siri

This is a virtual assistant from a company from Cupertino that can communicate with the user and provide him with various recommendations. You can activate it by holding down the Home key on iPad devices or iPhone.

• Advantages. Easy to use on iOS devices. Easily recognizes human speech. Has a high level of awareness of current news, weather conditions, sporting events, new movies, routes and nearby businesses. He is capable of recommending something for television viewing. It can interact with a number of smart home elements.

• Flaws. Low level of communication with many third party programs and resources. The speed is slower than that of some other virtual assistants.

• The humanity of the assistant. He is not able to conduct a full dialogue, but in some moments he can demonstrate a certain wisdom. The woman's voice sounds quite natural.

This is a virtual assistant built into devices from Amazon, Fire TV set-top boxes. It is expected to appear in a number of other devices, for example, in alarm clocks or feeders for pets.

• Advantages. Has the ability to play music and read news aloud from certain news sources. Provides data on weather conditions, traffic jams and some other parameters. It is possible to order goods from Amazon's Prime resource, as well as pizza delivered by voice. It has an open API, which allows it to easily work with all other applications.

• Negative points. You can control the virtual assistant only while in your apartment. The assistant does not work with smartphones.

• The humanity of the assistant. He has the ability to answer a complex question with humor, but immediately turns the dialogue into the category of some kind of acquisition.

Microsoft Cortana

It's digital voice assistant, which can be controlled by entering queries via text or voice. Available for use on iOS, Android or Windows. Able to answer and anticipate user questions.

• Advantages. Can manage your calendar, notes and reminders. Tracks postal items, can set an alarm and look up news stories in Bing. Monitors weather forecasts and other information. The virtual voice assistant easily interacts with a number of applications on Windows, and has also recently been able to conduct a dialogue with other bots using Skype.

• Negative sides. At the moment, it is not a finished, final product, and can now only be used by limited quantity residents of San Francisco.

• The humanity of the assistant. Extremely high. It is achieved due to the fact that answers to various questions are formed, first of all, by people.

• Advantages. The company promises that their product will be able to understand even quite complex issues. Work is underway to integrate the application with many other programs and resources.

• Flaws. At the moment, there are no convincing facts that would confirm that the assistant will work in accordance with the stated capabilities. All that the public now has are a few presentations from the developers.

Advantages and opportunities. The digital assistant Alice can monitor changes in weather conditions, build the necessary routes, and find information that interests the user on the Internet. Controlled by voice or text. The assistant can count and convert currencies based on the exchange rate.

• Flaws. At the moment, the assistant is not yet completely perfect in terms of searching for information. Questions may be misinterpreted. Reacts poorly to difficult questions. Can communicate what the weather is expected to be, but has difficulty understanding the phrase “Should I take an umbrella to work?”

• The humanity of the assistant. The assistant knows how to improvise well, has a set of good jokes, which is replenished, and you can easily conduct a relaxed dialogue with the assistant. In addition, the virtual assistant has a pleasant and truly humane voice. In the future, it may well become the best solution for domestic users.

Today's virtual assistants are constantly improving, have the ability to learn, and provide truly useful assistance in everyday and work matters. Work on updating and creating new assistants is ongoing, which suggests that the market will continue to develop steadily and rapidly.

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Do you need a virtual assistant?

Back in the mid-90s, when I was just starting my career, I gained my first experience using the services of a freelancer. One of the most memorable moments occurred during a small discussion with a group led by the writer. I don't remember his name, but I remember that he referred to his personal assistant. Does this writer have a personal assistant? I didn’t really understand why he needed this. Despite the fact that at that time, everything was fine with me, I managed to do everything, the thought of paying someone to work, even part-time, seemed like crazy nonsense, a cheap show off, or a stupid waste of money However, over the following years, I increasingly began to hear from my colleagues and acquaintances who referred to their virtual assistants. And now I'm finally starting to realize my mistake in underestimating all the benefits of using a personal assistant. And at the end of the day, I pay for a house cleaning service, I pay people to do their tax returns. Why not pay for a virtual assistant?

When should you hire a VA?

A virtual assistant, or VA for short, is someone who can help with minor tasks, such as filling out invoices, managing schedules and responding to emails, writing texts on a certain topic - all this is done remotely. So when should you hire him? There is no clear answer to this question. I got some answers from talking to several freelancers who hired VAs to help them. For Andrey Rotonov, a project manager from Kirov who specializes in processing editorial projects for clients and the National Education Association. The turning point came when he started losing money. “When my mail with orders was so full that I had to cut back on work. The job I love, I knew it was time to hire an assistant,” said Andrey. For Zhenya Gregina, a B2B marketing specialist based in Izhevsk, it all came down to time management issues. Zhenya decided that it would be nice to stop working until 3 am. And for Tanya Kaseleva, a writer, editor, and trainer in Minsk, her main goal was to eliminate the secondary tasks that took up a lot of time so that she could pursue higher goals. People have many common points and we are alike in many ways. Perhaps you've just had a baby, are sick, or are caring for elderly parents - these are just a few possible situations where you might need a little outside help.

How much can a VA cost?

In order for you to decide, you must know how much VA services cost. According to a review of freelancing platforms, VA services range from $5 to $7 per hour. On a writers' forum, they mentioned that they pay their VAs between $5 and $10 an hour. Gregory pays his VA $15 an hour, but he told me that he has a habit of overpaying when he finds that the VA's work really appeals to him because her work is so specialized. His VA usually works about seven hours a week for him, but how many hours your VA will work for you is up to you. The most important thing is to solve some theoretical equations about the benefits and feasibility of using a VA, is it possible that you will have to charge higher prices for your services to compensate for the cost of the VA? Of course, there is no way to know for sure how a BA will affect your work.

Where to look for VA

There is no universal formula for finding a VA, but there are freelancing platforms such as fl.ru, freelancehant.com, flassist.ru and others that you can check out. One of my friends found her assistant on the pages of one of the social networks by searching for profiles offering similar services. She works with a twenty-five-year-old woman from the Baltics who has experience working for large publishing companies. “She's coming back from maternity leave this year and is ready to work full time again as a virtual assistant,” she said. “Her skills meshed well with my needs. She worked 20 hours a week, which is perfect for me, but I would love to go full-time with her next year.” Make sure you are clear about what you want and what your goals are from the very beginning.

Actual value of VA

However, if we have something in common, you might be wondering if you're organized enough to be a virtual assistant. With a virtual assistant, you need to be at least organized enough to give your VA enough work. I used to dismiss the idea of ​​working with a virtual assistant and argued passionately about it. But now I ask myself how much time was wasted and how stupid I was not to use it. By unloading myself as much as possible from unnecessary routine work, which is not difficult, but takes a lot of time, frees up free time for me, which I can use to increase my competitiveness and improve the quality of my services, time that costs much more than I spend on use of VA.

Imagine the situation: you live in a country where you do not have the opportunity to work. The children are growing up, I want to realize myself professionally, but I have no ideas for my own business, and I only have an hour or two of free time a day. Sound familiar?

I think I'm not alone in this situation. I’ve been living in Cyprus for a long time, but I don’t have a work permit, and it’s quite difficult to find work in our village. Therefore, I began to think about remote work via the Internet - I ran my own blog, administrated several groups on Facebook to support the local community, wrote articles, took photographs, but did not understand how to translate this hobby into a paid activity.

Yes, I read advertising articles for schools that teach various professions online, but it was not clear to me how to find a job later, how to work with clients, how to hook a client when there are many newcomers like me in the market...

And so, when some time ago I read an article about the “Virtual Assistant” profession, it clicked in me - here it is! That's the thing I was looking for.

What is a virtual assistant? This is a universal specialist who helps an entrepreneur conduct business on the Internet - fills pages in in social networks, designs landing pages and presentations, organizes webinars and sets up mailing lists. Depending on previous experience, an assistant can specialize in one direction or another. But in general, this is a person who is well versed in the Internet, can find the right service, write a request, control contractors and be that multi-armed, multi-machine operator who will relieve the entrepreneur of routine responsibilities. And it doesn’t matter what country the entrepreneur lives in or what citizenship the Virtual Assistant has - they meet and collaborate on the Internet.

• By 2020, 20% of jobs in Russia will be virtual, according to a study by J’son & Partners Consulting, commissioned by the Bitrix24 service. According to 2016 studies, this figure in Europe is 17%, and in Japan and the USA it reaches 40% of all workers.

I googled it and realized that in the English-speaking environment this profession is very common, there are even associations of business assistants. There is less information in the Russian-speaking space, but there are several schools for training virtual assistants. And all of them - which is very valuable - promise help with internships and employment. You can see the results of the study of schools that train business assistants on my Facebook page. I chose the International School for Training Business Assistants and Internet Marketers “Helppy” by Olga Shevchenko and did not regret a minute. Both the organization of training and the usefulness of information are excellent!

The training lasts five weeks and the immersion in study is complete. In 35 days, you delve into the principles of organizing an Internet business, layout a presentation in Power Point, draw up a content plan and a schedule of posts within the framework of your own developed social media promotion strategy, create a landing page - a one-page website, and also - TA-DAM! – you create a portfolio for yourself. It is clear that these are not all topics, but only those on which homework was required, and on which we all pored over at night. For all your homework you receive detailed answers, and very rarely did you manage to pass them the first time, they asked you very strictly - either the typography was lame, or the design failed.

In addition to lectures and educational material, a closed section contains a database of useful articles, the secret group is full of life - curators and fellow students discuss assignments, and on Fridays Olga Shevchenko talks to each student separately and answers all their questions.

Creating a portfolio is a huge blow to your self-esteem. After you have collected everything you can, apply the rules of strong text, add customer reviews there (we did our homework on behalf of online entrepreneurs, and they wrote reviews for us), select fonts, and then put it into a landing page with beautiful pictures... This makes your self-esteem rise, and you are ready for exploits and new achievements. Would you like to see my portfolio? . I’m showing it to you not to brag, but to show what you can get out of it.

It’s good that I started studying in advance, so I even had time to sleep and manage the clients I found right there, next to me. The fact is that when you start studying and delving into a topic, your vision sharpens and you see that in this project, for example, you can be useful, but here you can turn the page and get completely different results. You offer your services, show what you can do, how you can help, and people respond. This is how many of my fellow students and I got our jobs.

I don’t promise an easy life - you will have to study and work a lot, information on the Internet changes quickly, Facebook, for example, has innovations every week, more and more people enter the labor market every day. You will need to build your work schedule and think about time management. For example, I typed a draft of this article on my phone in Google copy while the pedicurist was working on my feet. And I had to refuse one very promising offer, because I understood - either work or family, there was no third option, I couldn’t cope with everything at the moment.